September 4, 2014 the Palace of Independence in Astana will hold the IX meeting of Supreme Courts’ chairman of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization member-states, the press service of Kazakhstan Supreme Court reports.

The event will be attended by the chairman of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan Kairat Mami, Chairman of the Supreme People’s Court of China Zhou Qiang, Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Lebedev, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kyrgyzstan F.Dzhamasheva, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Tajikistan Nusratullo Abdulloyev, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan Shayunus Gaziyev, SCO Secretary General Dmitriy Mezentsev, Deputy Director of the Executive Committee of the SCO Regional Antiterrorist Structure T.Musabayev.

The session will discuss the issues of improvement and evaluation of the courts’ activities, the selection and appointment of judges, the use of information and communication technologies in the proceedings, as well as a number of practical questions on justice administration. A separate seminar will consider the role of judges of the supreme courts in the fight against terrorism.

It is expected to sign the Joint Declaration of the SCO member states Supreme Courts’ chairmen to strengthen cooperation and partnership for the joint promotion of the rule of law and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms.

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Charles van der Leeuw, writer, news analyst, was born in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 1952. He started working as an independent reporter on cultural issues in a wide variety of publications back in 1977. Ten years later, he settled down in war-torn Beirut as an international war correspondent, following a first experience in Iraq in 1985, which resulted in his first book on the Iraq-Iran war. After his kidnapping and release in 1989, his second book “Lebanon – the injured innocence” came out, followed, in early 1992, by “Kuwait burns”. Later in the year, he settled down in Baku, Azerbaijan, as a war correspondent. “Storm over the Caucasus” on the southern Caucasus geopolitical conflicts came out in 1997 in the Dutch language and two years later in the first English edition. It was followed by “Azerbaijan – a quest for identity” and “Oil and gas in the Caucasus and Caspian – a history”, both published in 2000, and “Black & Blue” published in Almaty in summer 2003 about the stormy rise of Russia’s present-day oil and gas companies.
In 2012, he published a bipartite book about the histories of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. His latest publication before this work was “Cold War II: cries in the desert – or how to counterbalance NATO’s propaganda from Ukraine to Central Asia”, published by Herfordshire Press, England, along with books similar to this one on Kyrgyzstan, published in English, French and German editions.